Breeders’ Cup

Hosting a Breeders’ Cup at a new venue always brings some trepidation, but the racing industry has just completed the task twice in the last three years — Keeneland in 2015 and Del Mar this year. So where do these Breeders’ Cup editions stack up? In the latest version of The Friday Show, Scott Jagow […]

The TCI guys wrap another tremendous Breeders’ Cup, discussing highlights, surprises, and disappointments from both days of this year’s 13-race championship event. Thank you to everyone for following another season of TCI. We look forward to seeing you in 2018.

Gun Runner’s emphatic Breeders’ Cup Classic victory leaves little doubt about the 2017 Horse of the Year title. Arrogate put together an impressive string of victories this season with the Pegasus and Dubai World Cups, but his failure to return to form at Del Mar likely gives Gun Runner the upper hand with the majority […]

All samples collected from 2017 Breeders’ Cup horses have been cleared by the Kenneth L. Maddy Equine Analytical Chemistry Laboratory at the University of California, Davis. All horses competing in Breeders’ Cup races November 3 and 4 at Del Mar underwent pre-race testing for total carbon dioxide (TCO2) levels in blood. The Maddy Laboratory then conducted post-race testing of both blood and urine samples for prohibited drugs, including cobalt, collected from the first four finishers in all Breeders’Cup races and any additional random horses selected by the stewards consistent with CHRB protocol. The Maddy Laboratory is accredited by the Racing Medication and Testing Consortium (RMTC) and is the only racing laboratory in the Western Hemisphere certified by the International Federation […]

Wuheida will stay in training as a four-year-old with a return to the Breeders’ Cup her main objective. Charlie Appleby’s filly promised plenty last year when winning the Prix Marcel Boussac but before Saturday evening this season had not gone to plan. A problem in the spring ruled her out of the Classics but she […]

Trainer Bob Baffert said all 11 of his Breeders’ Cup horses came out of their races in fine shape. The Baffert stable finished the weekend with four seconds – Collected (Classic), Solomon (Sentient Jet Juvenile), Alluring Star (14 Hands Winery Juvenile Fillies) and Abel Tasman (Longines Distaff) and a third – West Coast (Classic) – […]

Hall of Fame jockey Mike Smith, 52, extended his lead for all-time Breeders’ Cup World Championship victories in the 14 Hands Juvenile Fillies on Caledonia Road on Saturday to bring his total to 26. John Velazquez was the only rider to win two races on the 13-race Championship program and those two victories gave him […]

Mick Ruis showed his usual enthusiasm and Bolt d’Oro showed no ill effects of his first career defeat as the owner/trainer watched the Del Mar Futurity and Frontrunner Stakes winner being walked around his stable are Sunday morning. “Tough trip,” Ruis said of the third-place finish, beaten 5 ¼ lengths by Good Magic in the […]

Gun Runner, who virtually secured Horse of the Year honors by taking Saturday’s $6-million Breeders’ Cup Classic by 2 1/4 lengths in front-running fashion over Collected, is scheduled to stay in training this winter in New Orleans, though how much racing that might lead to is yet to be determined. Trainer Steve Asmussen said Sunday […]